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I really thought that they'd make versions of these languages that would compile to Dalvik bytecode, so that people weren't restricted to writing Java Android a
by joshsharp 17y ago
I really thought that they'd make versions of these languages that would compile to Dalvik bytecode, so that people weren't restricted to writing Java Android apps. Makes sense given it's a custom VM, right? Guess we're halfway there now.
- davidw 17y agoI think you could definitely do that with Lua (I know someone has ported it to J2ME), and Javascript. Python and Ruby are harder, because they are bigger, and their Java implementations use lots of more 'advanced' stuff like reflection and bytecode generation that are not going to fly on Dalvik.